Speech to text input

Modified on Fri, Jul 12 at 11:54 AM

Speech-to-text

With a Sunbeam Premium subscription and a data connection, you will get access to fast, accurate speech transcription, powered by Microsoft.

Press and hold the message key to use the speech-to-text option while in an input field. You will see Detecting voice input... at the bottom of the screen and the transcribed words will be entered in the text input field.

Tip
Speech-to-text requires a fast, stable data connection. A slow connection will not be able to transcribe and will eventually time out. You will see a Processing... message during this time.

Number entry

You can also speak numbers to have them entered or use the keypad.

Emoji entry

To enter emojis, press the # or * key (depending on your keypad settings) to quickly open the emoji palette. Or you can long press the star key and select Emoji from the Menu. Use the D-pad A white and black diamond with a circle and arrows

Description automatically generated or touchscreen to make the selection.

Multiple languages

Speech-to-text supports using multiple languages. You can use more than one language by setting the 2nd language to use a different key. Multiple languages can be enabled in the Speech-to-Text settings.

Speech-to-text Settings:

Speech-to-text language

Allows you to set your preferred language.

Use 2nd language

This enables settings to add another speech-to-text language. First choose the 2nd language, then use the toggle switch at the bottom if you wish to change which key is used. By default, the contacts key is used. This can be switched to use the key on the back of the device instead.

Tip
If you set this to use the key on the back of the phone, it will prevent using this key as a shortcut to attach audio recordings in a text message.

Enable dictation for STT

If this is turned on, you can say the symbol name and the voice-to-text will enter the correct symbol. Example: Say "question mark" to enter ?. You can also say "new line" to move to the next line.

If this setting is turned off, the STT will automatically try to enter the correct symbols based on the sentence context without needing to say the symbol name.